BEVERIDGE, Albert Jeremiah, a Senator from Indiana; born near Sugar Tree Ridge, Concord
Township, Highland County, Ohio, October 6, 1862; attended the common schools;
graduated from Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) University, Greencastle, Ind., in
1885; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in
Indianapolis, Ind.; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on
January 17, 1899, reelected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, until March
3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910; chairman, Committee on
Forest Reservations and Game Protection (Fifty-sixth Congress), Committee on
Territories (Fifty-seventh through Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Indian
Depredations (Fifty-ninth Congress); returned to Indianapolis and engaged in
literary and historical pursuits; unsuccessful Progressive candidate for
Governor of Indiana in 1912; chairman of the National Progressive Convention at
Chicago in 1912; unsuccessful candidate as a Progressive in 1914 and as a
Republican in 1922 for election to the United States Senate; died in
Indianapolis, Ind., April 27, 1927; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.

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American National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography;
The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law; Bowers,
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Beveridge and the Progressive Era. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin
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Albert J. Beveridge: American Nationalist. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1971.